How to Watch Mission Impossible Movies in Chronological Order

Mission Impossible Movies successful Chronological Order

Following the Mission Impossible chronology is arsenic casual arsenic watching the movies successful the bid they were released: the communicative chronology follows the merchandise bid from 1996’s Mission Impossible to The Final Reckoning successful 2025.

The database beneath outlines the definitive bid successful which to ticker the Mission Impossible movies. We've added wide crippled overviews and accusation connected each movie’s captious and commercialized reception.

*The blurbs beneath incorporate character/actor names and wide crippled overviews.

1. Mission: Impossible (1996)

1996’s Mission: Impossible introduced america to Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, a highly susceptible cause wrong the elite Impossible Mission Force (IMF) espionage agency. Hunt, believed to beryllium a mole wrong the IMF, flees and sets retired to observe the traitor’s existent identity.

Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, and Henry Czerny prima alongside Cruise, arsenic does the series’ astir recurring enactment actor, Ving Rhames (Luther). It’s the lone movie successful the franchise directed by Brian De Palma (Scarface).

2. Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Ethan Hunt returned 4 years aboriginal for Mission: Impossible 2, a sequel that tasks the cause with recovering a unsafe bioweapon and its cure from the hands of a nefarious pharmaceutical institution and its lackeys.

The sequel weaves different spy-thriller crippled done explosive stuntwork, pursuit scenes, and the play of blackmail and stolen identity. It’s the lone movie successful the bid directed by action-film fable John Woo.

3. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Mission: Impossible 3 introduces a emotion involvement for Ethan successful Michelle Monaghan’s Julia Meade. The crippled sees Julia unwittingly mixed up successful Ethan’s espionage work, which erstwhile again focuses connected the betterment of a bioweapon.

Ving Rhames again reprises his relation arsenic Ethan’s trusted workfellow Luther. Other formed members see Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Keri Russell, Simon Pegg, and Laurence Fishburne.

Mission: Impossible III was J.J. Abrams’s feature-film directorial debut. It’s the lone movie successful the franchise helium directed.

4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

The archetypal of the more-modern Mission Impossible movies, Ghost Protocol was a large occurrence for Paramount, grossing astir $700 cardinal USD worldwide and earning 93% connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Another communicative of deception with perchance earth-shattering consequences, Ghost Protocol tasks Ethan and co. with tracking down Russia’s stolen atomic codes. The movie ends by mounting up The Syndicate violent web arsenic the adjacent film’s large bad.

Ghost Protocol was directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles). Cruise and Pegg returned from M:I 3 and were joined by newcomers Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton.

5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Christopher McQuarrie took implicit the franchise’s directorial duties with Rogue Nation and has held onto them since. A predominant collaborator of Tom Cruise’s, McQuarrie has made the 2 astir critically acclaimed M:I movies and 2 of the 3 highest-grossing.

Rogue Nation is different globe-trotting spectacle filled with stuntwork and sabotage. This clip around, Ethan Hunt faces disconnected against The Syndicate, a shadowy violent enactment acceptable up astatine the extremity of Ghost Protocol.

Joining Cruise, Pegg, Renner, and Rhames successful Rogue Nation are Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney, and Alec Baldwin.

6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

The erstwhile caller Mission Impossible introduction is the franchise’s astir critically and commercially palmy film. Fallout features steadfast servings of M:I’s staple ingredients — authorities conspiracies, double-crosses, bombastic set-pieces — but arsenic stated successful IGN’s review, the main gully is watching “Tom Cruise bash his death-defying thing.”

The Syndicate, rebuilt arsenic The Apostles, returns arsenic the antagonist enactment successful Fallout. Ethan Hunt, accompanied by Henry Cavill’s August Walker, is tasked with recovering 3 plutonium cores to forestall the detonation of 3 atomic bombs.

Cruise, Pegg, Rhames, Monaghan, Ferguson, Baldwin, and Harris each instrumentality from the series’ past, portion Cavill leads a radical of newcomers that includes Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley, and Vanessa Kirby.

7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

As the erstwhile movie wherever the Reckoning began successful the Mission Impossible series, Dead Reckoning Part 1 brings caller stunts, formed members, and each of the enactment you'd expect. Directed by Christopher McQuerrie and led by the ridiculous stunts of Tom Cruise, it's 1 of the champion movies successful the bid to date.

The communicative follows Ethan Hunt and his squad embark connected a unsafe ngo to way down a terrifying caller limb that threatens each of humanity. Confronted by a mysterious and all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to measurement the value of his ngo implicit the lives of the radical helium cares astir most.

The caller formed members added to Dead Reckoning see Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Indira Varma, Cary Elwes, and Mark Gatiss.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

The latest, and allegedly last Mission Impossible movie is present playing successful theaters. The Final Reckoning had a coagulated archetypal motorboat astatine the container bureau and is perchance connected way to go 1 of the biggest successful the franchise. IGN's Clint Gage had the accidental to reappraisal the movie and called it "just retired of scope of greatness", giving it a people of 6 retired 10.

While this was meant to beryllium the last Mission Impossible movie successful theaters, past ending of the movie seemingly leaves an opening for more. If it tin proceed to bash good astatine the container office, it is possibly not the final, last reckoning conscionable yet.

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Mission Impossible Movies Release Order

• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Mission: Impossible II (2000)
• Mission: Impossible III (2006)
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Upcoming Mission: Impossible Movies?

The Final Reckoning was marketed arsenic the decision of the Mission Impossible series, but the movie itself has been near open-ended. So portion determination aren't immoderate confirmed plans for much of these movies, there's truly cognize crushed to expect Paramount won't conscionable greenlight more.

Though determination person yet to beryllium immoderate confirmed plans we already cognize that manager Christopher McQuarrie has explored the thought of further sequels beyond The Final Reckoning. Seeing arsenic galore of the main characters are inactive alive, it seems imaginable we could spot smaller spin-offs instrumentality signifier aft Final Reckoning finishes up its container bureau run.

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.